Transcription of STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
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STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
STANDARDSFORFOREIGNLANGUAGELEARNINGP reparing for the 21st CenturyCOMMUNITIESCONNECTIONSCOMMUNICATI ONCOMPARISONSCULTURESIn 1993, a coalition offour national LANGUAGE organi-zations (the AmericanCouncil on the Teaching ofForeign Languages, theAmerican Association ofTeachers of French, theAmerican Association ofTeachers of German, andthe American Association ofTeachers of Spanish andPortuguese) received fund-ing to develop standardsfor FOREIGN LANGUAGE educa-tion, grades K-12. This was the seventhand final subject area toreceive federal support todevelop national standardsas part of the Bush Admini-stration s America 2000education initiative, whichcontinued under Goals 2000 in the Clinton Administration. An eleven-member taskforce, representing a variety of languages, levels of instruction, program models, andgeographic regions, was appointed to undertake the task of defining content stan-dards what students should know and be able to do in FOREIGN LANGUAGE each stage of development, the task force shared its work with the broader profes-sion and the public at large.
While these components of language are indeed crucial, the current organizing princi-ple for foreign language study is communication, which also highlights the why, the whom, and the when. So, while grammar and vocabulary are essential tools for com-munication, it is the acquisition of the ability to communicate in meaningful and
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